Cyberlaw and Ethics: Chapter 4: Patents and Trade Secrets in the Information Age
Business Method Patent
A U.S. patent that describes and claims a series of process steps that, as a whole, constitutes a method of doing business.
Business method patent is also called what?
A cyberpatent
Patentee
A patent gives to the patentee the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the patented invention.
Utility Patents
A patent granted for one of the following types of inventions: a process, a machine, a manufacture, or a composition of matter (such as a new chemical).
Design Patents
A patent grants for a new, original, and ornamental design for an article manufacture.
Interface
An administrative proceeding in the USPTO to determine who is entitled to the patent when two or more applicants claim the same invention, or when an application interfaces with an existing patent.
Patent
An intellectual property right granted by the U.S. government to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
An intermediate-level appellate court with jurisdiction to hear appeals in patent cases and some administrative agencies.
The quasi-judicial body in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that hears (1) appeals from patent applicants whose claims have been rejected by a patent examiner, and (2) interference contests between two or more applicants trying to patent the same invention.
Board of patent appeals and interferences (BPAI)
A U.S. patent that describes and claims a series of process steps that, as a whole, constitutes a method of doing business.
Business method patent
A what is a type of utility patent granted on an invention that combines business methods and software programs for Internet applications?
Cyberpatent of Internet patent
A patent grants for a new, original, and ornamental design for an article manufacture.
Design patents
________________ ________________ have a term of only 14 years from the date the patent is granted.
Design patents
__________________ _________________ is a patent that protects a product's appearance or nonfunctional aspect ts.
Design patents
Among the purposes of its creation were ending forum-shopping in patent suits, settling in patent-law doctrines, among the circuits, and allowing a single forum to develop the expertise needed to rule on complex technological questions that rise in patent suits. This defines Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI). True/False?
False - this defines the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Design patents are the most commonly issued patents. True/False?
False - utility patents are the most commonly issued patents
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Court is also called what?
Federal Circuit or CAFC
Markman Hearing
In patent cases, a hearing at which the court receives evidence and arguments concerning the construction to be given to terms in a patent issue.
Like infringement of copyrights and trademarks, patent holders may also sue for what?
Infringement of their intellectual property rights
An administrative proceeding in the USPTO to determine who is entitled to the patent when two or more applicants claim the same invention, or when an application interfaces with an existing patent.
Interface
In patent cases, a hearing at which the court receives evidence and arguments concerning the construction to be given to terms in a patent issue.
Markman hearing
An intellectual property right granted by the U.S. government to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.
Patent
A patent gives to the patentee the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the patented invention.
Patentee
___________________ _______________ may be granted to anyone who invents or discovered and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.
Plant patents
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI)
The quasi-judicial body in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that hears (1) appeals from patent applicants whose claims have been rejected by a patent examiner, and (2) interference contests between two or more applicants trying to patent the same invention.
Generally the term for a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States. True/False?
True
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit hears appeals from this tribunal. True/False?
True
The interface proceeding occurs when the same invention is claimed (1) in two pending applications, or (2) in one pending application and a patent issued within a year of the pending application's filing date. True/False?
True
An intermediate-level appellate court with jurisdiction to hear appeals in patent cases and some administrative agencies.
U.S. court of appeals for the federal circuit
The what is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce?
USPTO
Congress established the what to administer and manage patents within the United States?
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
A patent granted for one of the following types of inventions: a process, a machine, a manufacture, or a composition of matter (such as a new chemical).
Utility patents
What are the three types of patents?
Utility patents, design patents, and plant patents
